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Horse Power and Reliability $144.00 postpaid _LBV MOTORS 346 EI Camino. Redwood City (714) 369-4112 o~ DKW J~ E.T. CYCLE SALES 2268 EI c.mol1O R_I Me. v_. Ca,IM(MO 14t51964-6622 'AY AilEA Dlllr "IlE HEAftt"'....n By Jan Newman BEND, ORE., SEPT. 23 Sunday morning started pretty early for those of us who camped at the track Saturday. night. We were unfortunate enough to have half a dozen or so of the squids who give bikers a bad name in our midst. Mechanics at 5 a.m. are bad enough but a handful of test drivers racing around before 6 a.m. has to be on the downhill side of decency. When racing time rolled around it was one of those strange days that found several riders still in contention for first place as the third moto started in a number of classes. Open Junior rider Mark . Smith (Mai) had the distinction of being the only winner to take three straight. Bill McCormick (Yam), Jack Hargrave (Yam), Scott Nickeson (Yam) and Dave Gough (Hod) entered the final 100 Junior race with only 44 points separating them. McCormick took the win and the big trophy. The first 125 Junior group had Mark Osuna (BuI) and Dan Henderson (Suz) tied and Dave Bushard (Hon) tralJing by only two points after two motos. Osuna pulled out a win while E4 Hill (Suz) moved up into a second ovetall. Jim Reed (Hon) came from behind to reign over Division 2 as Rick. Herbst (Hon) slipped down to a seven th in the fmal race and second for the day. Lonny Johnson (Suz) broke a tie with Jeff Scoville (Hon) in the final 125 Intermediate race while John Brown (Hon) whisked by both in the third race for second overall. Two Pen tons ridden by Experts Barney Newman and Chet Davis looked like Siamese twins from scratch to finish in the first moto of the- 125 Expert-Intermediate class. Newman got the win but retired with a broken rear hub. Davis rode on for the win but not without wheel problems of his own he borrowed Newman's front wheel for the final race. Randy Patterson (Yam) led the 250 Junior-Intermediate class for the Intermediate win with Ron Stevenson (Suz) taking the honors for the Juniors. Each had two wins and a second. Open Intermediate winner Steve Johnston (Mai) came close to three wins in t lie combined Junior and Intermediate contest. He was leading in moto two when he and Mark Smith caine up behind a slower Junior rider in a tight comer. In the squeeze, Johnston went down and dropped to third. The lapped rider was none other than Steve's brother, Jeff. (Family harmony returned before the day was over.) Mike Howard (Hon) came back from a second moto crash and a big owie for a little guy to win the Mini Junior race. Randy Frazier (Yam) took top honors for the Intermediates. Top money in the Open Expert was up for grabs between Mike Kinnear (Hus), Kevin Nofziger (Hon) and Barney Newman (Mon) as the fmal race came around. Kinnear and Nofsiger battled out in front in the first moto. Kinnear took the lead in the second but had bike problems and dropped back while Nofziger and Newman diced it out. In the final race Newman Jed the first half with Kinnear breathing down his neck as they pulled out a big lead. Kinnear took the lead and it was Newman's turn to be nose to knobbies. Going into a tigh t comer Kinnear killed the engine Newman followed suit as he locked it up to avoid a crash. Then the contest boiled down to who got started fITst. The Montesa yielded to the fITst kick and Newman went on while Kinnear's Husky resisted long enough for Nofziger to pull up' to give Kinnear a run for second. ISOT Benefit .By Bill Spencer Lom, CAL., SEPT. 16 A t a r ecent competition committee meeting of District 36, it was suggested that because six riders from Northern California Steve Braves performs ritual number 17. were heading East for the 1973 ISDT, the district should help ou t. $1 00 was sent to the AMA rider's fund and in return, the AMA sent some lSDT stickies. That same evening, somebody suggested that something more personal be done for the riders. Just five weeks later the idea of a benefit event turned into an actual race at the Lodi Cycle Bowl. While the monetary outcome was small, the way it got done was quite indicative of just how hard people will work for the benefit of others. A committee chairman was named and jobs were assigned. Appointed to the position of referee for the event was competition director Leroy MacDonald, who got things going by convincing Jim Cagle of AMA Amateur activities to sponsor the sanction. Others gOI the track for $1, some donated trophies, and although insurance and an ambulance cost a bunch, all the rest was donated. Sixteen officials of the district showed up to work at different hours of the day and with nearly 250 riders on hand, (all riding for double points), the action was almost unreal for an amateur race. Mark Smith, the top rated scrambler in D-36 was expected to really clean.up in both the 125 and 250 Expert classes, but he wound up taking more soil samples than any other rider for the day and garnering no points in the black plate race. Steve Eklund took home the most points by winning the 250 Expert Main, (normally called the Kim and Ray show, after usual battlers/winners Kim Jorgensen and Ray Huff). Eklund has taken over the third position on the top twenty list, and the 20 poin ts he won in today's 10 lap feature make him a possible candidate for second. The Kim and Ray show took the second and third place show, which isn't unusual except that the 43-year-old Huff is suffering from four broken ribs from last week's Stockton benefit scramble. The man of steel took a couple of days of racing off, Friday night and Saturday night, and despite not even being able to sleep lying .down, (2 broken front and rear), he taped himself up real tightly, and got on the gas. Former National scrambles champ Jim Foley did well in the 500 Expert Main. He will be looking for his sixth black plate next year. Foley carried the No. 1 plate around for so long that he got used to having a special plate. Even though he is still a class "C" &xpert, he wants to be involved with racing in the district. Subject for controversy on this Class "C" business is the rnIe that doesn't allow these guys to race in amateur events of this nature. The controveny goes on with the winner of the 550